Canada Days at UAF

Submitted by Mary Erhlander
Phone: (907) 474-6556
03/06/04

Fast Runner film showing
The widely acclaimed film The Fast Runner will be showing Tuesday, March 9 at 7:15 p.m. in Schaible Auditorium. The film is set in the Canadian Arctic and explores themes of love, revenge, and survival among the Inuit.

First Nations Lecture
Visiting professor Laurie Meijer-Drees of Malispina College in B.C. will be presenting a lecture titled "How First Nations have Affected the State of Canada" on Wednesday, March 10 at 9:15 - 10:15 a.m. in Gruening 408. Light refreshments will be served.

Graduate student panel presentations
Graduate students will be presenting their research on Canadian topics on Wednesday, March 10 from 4 - 6 p.m. in Gruening 305. The students are Ross Coen, Galia Kirsanova and Linda Johnson in Northern Studies and IGERT student Chanda Meek.

Totem: The Return of the G’psgolox Pole
The film Totem: The Return of the G’psgolox Pole, will be shown Wednesday, March 10 at 7 p.m. in Gruening 413. This is the story of the 1929 theft of a totem pole from the Haisla people of northwestern British Columbia, how it was discovered 60 years later in the National Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm, Sweden, and the effort involved in repatriating this artifact. Admission is free.